Rain-water cut-off



` (No Mode'l'.)

J. M. BAIRD 8v R. SANDSTROM.

RAIN WATER GUT-OPF.

No. 416,391. 'Patented Dec. 3, 1889,.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. BAIRI) AND ROBERT SANDSTROM, OF TOPEKA, KANSAS.

RAIN-WATER CUT-OFF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,391, dated December 8, 1889. lApplication filed July 24, 1889. Serial No.318,56l. A (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN M. BAIRD and ROBERT SANDsTRoM, botlrof Topeka, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Rain-Water Out-Off, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description. p

This invention relates to rain-water cutoffs, the object of the invention being to provide a cut-off which may be readily adjusted to position, and which may be manipulated so as to direct a How from the main leader to a supply or to a waste leader, or to two supply-leaders, as will be readily understood.

To the end named the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of partsall as will be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure lis a face view of our improved rain-water cut-oft'. Fig. 2 is a central sectional elevation of the same, the position of the switching-tube being, however, reversed.

\ Fig. 3 is an end View of the cut-off, the parts being represented as they appear in Fig. 1, the view being taken from the right-hand side of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a plan View of the cut-off, the parts being represented as they appear when shown in Fig. 2.

In the drawings, 10 represents a cut-oit body, which is formed Withaiiange 11,adapt ed to receive the lower end ofthe main leader 12, the ange 11 being carried downward within the body 10, there to .receive a'flange 13, that is formed at the upper end of a switching-tube 14, the lower end of said switching-tube being formed with a flange 15,

which fits within either one of the flanges 1G or 17, which said fianges are arranged so that they may be coupled with delivery or Waste pipes. The switching-tube is guided by a downwardly-extending stud or pin 18, that rides in bearings formed in the body 10 between t-he flanges 16 and 17, the stud or pin being located so that it will be concentric with the axis of the iiange 11.`

In operation the switching-tube may be adjusted as represented in Fig. 1, or by graspingits handle20 and slightly raising the tube.

The weight of the tube, lwhen the power brought to bear upon the handle is released, is designed to carry the tube downward and into the iiange 16.

In case the parts should become clogged with dbris of any kind they may be cleared by adjusting the switching-tube so that it will deliver a portion of the Water carried thereto by the leader 12 to each of the tubes connected with theflanges 16 and 17.

Having thus described our invention,- we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A rain-Water cut-oit consisting of the body 10,v having its front cut away, the central iiange 11 in the top of the body, thebottom flanges 16 17, the switch-pipe formed of parallel upper and lower `ianges 13 15, an intermediate inclined section 14, the handle 20, extending through the open front of the body, and the central pin 18, substantially as set forth.

Vitnesses:

CHARLES CURTIS, CLAUDE WISHART. 

